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This one glows under a black light. Nice and small Green & Amber Sommerso pieces with the Brussells World Fair Label. I saw one years ago that sold on planetglass website in a different colour. It was mentioned that it was a Archimede Seguso piece. Once again, this is unconfirmed as I have only seen 2 other pieces with no company label. Any suggestions?

I've seen a lot of pieces with this label. I believe the first line of the label says a lot: Arte Nuovo Murano. I looked once before to see if I could find a company with that name, but came to no conclusion. It may just mean new art, Murano. The vessels I've seen with the label have been sommerso forms. If it is not a company itself, I don't know if they can be attributed to any certain maker.

Okay to be pedantic. I switched back and forth so I'd spell it right, but still missed it.

I checked another vase I had a picture of. It also had a grand prize 1958 label, though it was a totally different vase. I doubt there can be that many grand prize winners -- there are others with this label -- so I don't know what to think about the label. I personally consider it one for generic glass, but I do that without any real basis.

There are so many issues to be resolved. Grand Prizes just fall into that huge abyss until someone does serious research. However, since the govt. have decided that the arts art not at all important and refuse to fund university arts courses in the UK ... minute questions won't be answered in specialist books anywhere nearly as frequently as they were in the past.

I have just realised everything I believed to be true about 'foreign' stickers and stamps has to questioned. Today I found a piece of ceramic I'm 99% sure is Italian with foreign signed on the base. And last week a conversation here has made me look at some of my glass again - stickers on glass that are looking Scandinavian ... I believed for a long time that 'foreign' meant strictly from Germany or Japan.

I wonder, since there is an abundance of vases with this label, if they might have been sold as souvenirs at the Brussels World Fair 1958. Or maybe someone could win a vase as grand prize for playing some sort of game. I looked online and saw some of the old exhibits at the fair. The thing about the vases being award winners is that the execution does not seem all that great to me, and there are so many of them. I saw some blogs attributing them to Poli, but I don't get a Poli feel for the things I've seen. Poli had crisper lines and colors.

It's also possible that the manufacturer, whoever that was,won a prize and then used that to indicate the quality of it's wares on everything. What we would need to know was which Murano manufacturer won a grand prize at the exhibition. There was a lot less interest in who made what in those days.